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1733-1742

  • If it (thy aspiration) bear thee thither, ’tis no wonder: do not regard thy weakness, regard thy search (aspiration);

  • For this search is God's pledge (deposited) within thee, because every seeker deserves something sought (by him).

  • Strive that this search may increase, so that thy heart (spirit) may escape from this bodily dungeon. 1735

  • People will say, “Poor so-and-so is dead,” (but) thou wilt say, “I am living, O ye heedless ones!

  • Though my body, like (other) bodies, is laid to rest, the Eight Paradises have blossomed in my heart.”

  • When the spirit is lying at rest amidst roses and eglantines, what does it matter if the body is (buried) in that dung?

  • What should the spirit (thus) laid asleep know of the body, (or care) whether it (the body) is in a rose-garden or an ashpit?

  • (For) in the bright (celestial) world the spirit is crying, “Oh, would that my people knew!” 1740

  • If the spirit shall not live without this body, then for whom shall Heaven be the palace (of everlasting abode)?

  • If thy spirit shall not live without the body, for whom is the blessing (promised in the words) in Heaven is your provision?

  • Explaining the banefulness of the fat and sweet things of the World and how they hinder one from (receiving) the Food of God, as he (the Prophet) hath said—“Hunger is the Food of God with which He revives the bodies of the true (witnesses to Him),” i.e. in hunger the Food of God is (forthcoming); and he hath said, “I pass the night with my Lord and He gives me food and drink”; and God hath said, “being provided for, rejoicing.”